Sentence examples for distinct particular from inspiring English sources

But faces that would normally have blurred past had become distinct, particular.

Stories like these fulfill Sherman's goal of humanizing soldiers by enabling us to see them as individuals with distinct, particular responses to psychological and physical wounds.

Although the interpretation of Plato's theory remains a matter of scholarly controversy, there is no doubt that his promulgation of it initiated an enduring dispute about the existence of universals often conceived, in opposition to particulars, as entities, such as general properties, which may be wholly present at different times and places or instantiated by many distinct particular objects.

If there are non-substantial particulars, then Socrates' whiteness is a numerically distinct particular from Plato's whiteness.

Substances, Locke famously holds, "are such combinations of simple Ideas, as are taken to represent distinct particular things subsisting by themselves" (II, XII, 6).

Third, they are intrinsic to the particulars that instantiate them which, all too roughly, means that they characterize what those particulars are like, independently of what any other distinct particular is like.

But the universal is supposed to constitute the substance of all of its distinct particulars, as a whole, at the same time.

Like Dharmakīrti, Śāntarakṣita relies on a judgment of similarity in functional efficacy among distinct particulars as conceptually construed to generate the idea.

If we allow that Helen and Andromache are presumed to be distinct particulars in virtue of their matter, we can further distinguish the particulars and the form-copies, i.e. the-beautiful-in-Helen versus the beautiful-in-Andromache.

Scotus is able to claim transitivity for the relation of real sameness since, as we have seen, he believes that the common nature instantiated in two distinct particulars does not itself have real (i.e. numerical) identity (see Tweedale [1999], 488).

Some barriers apply globally, but others are distinct and particular to a region.